Show WHITE HOUSE CITES AXIS USE USEI 0 Of DIES BLASI Enemy Broadcast Took Up Lip Cry Of Communism WASHINGTON A April P r i I 2 INS The White House Thursday offered what it said was vas physical proof of the cont con- con t of Vice President Wall WalI Wal- Wal l I ace ce that Representative Marin Martin Martin Mar- Mar tin in Dies of Texas is lending himself himself to axis propaganda in making baking charges that 35 em- em o of Wallaces Wallace's board of economic warfare are members of f the communist front 3 za Recalling that Wallace had charged barged that the effect on the morale of the United States would nave have ave been less damaging had Dies actually been on Hitler's payroll I White hite House Secretary William D. D Hassett Bassett produced a report from the ie federal communications com com- mission i monitoring service which showed that a German radio propagandist had quickly utilized the Dies ies charges Berlin Takes Tales Up Cry merlin Immediately after fter publication of Ithe the Dies committee report accord- accord ling j g to the monitoring monitoring- service the Berlin short wave the German- German dominated Vichy radio and station sta tion Debunk the latter a station I broadcasting from Europe but claiming laiming to originate in the United j States had sought to make capital of the controversy j on On last Tuesday by short wave It no North America Berlin broadcast as as follows i 11 Dies revelation elation indicts the president An old truth has been proved again by developments development's In Inthe toe the bureau of economic warfare Washington By way of Geneva pomes i s a report of communist domination dom dom- i in this new deal f fon on n in the American capital The report states that 35 officials of this his bureau have been shown to toe toi tok k i e members of Stalin's world-wide world American z This accusation was made madeo t to o Vice President Wallace by Marm Martn Mar- Mar tn m Dies chairman of f the committee com com- cpm cpm- r to combat un-American un ac ac- ac- ac fr mears ears the thc i The German broadcast further accused President and Mrs Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- v velt lt of primary responsibility for this unsavory mess IThe The he same day from Vichy which according to the F F C report takes flakes takes its cue from Berlin the official French broadcast said SIt It has been called to our attention attention atten- atten tion m from New York that 35 empl em em- pl yes of the board of economic warfare who belong to a communist organization have been denounced denounced de de- de- de by the committee against b bolshevik activities Station Debunk Wednesday put the following on the air by short wave JOnly Only recently Congressman Martin Dies pointed out in a letter lettera a addressed to Vice President Wall Wallace Wallace Wal Wal- l lace ce that there are 35 avowed communists communists com corn among the higher officials q of the war bureau of economic warfare alone not to mention the exceedingly strong communistic in influence influence in- in fluence in Mr Roosevelt's other ver mental age agencies n c i e sand and throughout the country Calls Wallace Secretary tIt is interesting to n note te in this connection that Secretary Wallace Sic sic ic refused to even entertain Mr Ir Dries Dies ies' ies protest against this state iff affairs let alone do anything it leaving it up to us to toi i ide if this attitude of his is ased sed on ignorance fear of or personal per per- sympathy with the secret growth of communistic influence But aside from these questions low is it possible that a political Yup up or party as little known and it 11 the same time as thoroughly in the country as a whole the communist party can gain gaino o great an influence ence over our an and over our institutions |